Sunday, March 8, 2009

Nutella Brownies

There's absolutely nothing to say about these brownies except that they are in one word Un-Friggin-Believable! I am on a cookie/ brownie cooking spree of my bookmarks.

I have also been keeping my daughter occupied during her holidays. And today I made these with my nephew - he's so enthusiastic and excited about cooking - so let me just say they tasted even better!

I made a few alterations to the original recipe. My nephew doesn't like peanut butter, so we substituted 1/2 cup Nutella for the peanut butter - so now we have 1 cup instead of 1/2 cup nutella. And the chocolate chips were added on as a topping, but we mixed it right into thebatter.

On a low heat, melt the butter and add in the sugar and vanilla while stirring to combine. Remove from heat and cool completely. Add the eggs one at a time and mix well to combine after each addition.

Add the flour mixture, a bit at a time, to the egg mixture until completely mixed in.

Heat the nutella in the microwave for a little bit until you get it to a runny consistency. Add the nutella to the batter and mix well. Now add the chocolate chips and mix to combine.

Pour into a square baking pan and bake for 30 minutes. Remove from oven and cool completely before cutting. We couldn't wait and that was a mistake. Parts of it were still warm and so a little like melted chocolate in the center (sigh - can't go wrong with some molten chocolate, can you?!). It did eventually all firm up. And the kids walloped it with some strawberry ice cream (I would've chosen vanilla, but hey, it's all for the kids!).

As I said before Un-Friggin-Believable. Truly Death By Chocolate!! And what a good way to go!

Oh wow, these sound amazing! I copied it down right away to try. I am interested, do you prefer it with or without the peanut butter? I am asking because I made a peanut butter frosting for my last batch of brownie and my hubby found it a bit overpowering. I can't wait to try these :)

bee - homemade nutella - that sounds amazing! glad the comments are working now too.

Holler - I actually preferred it without the peanut butter - I like the pure taste of chocolate, though. The nutella and peanut butter are both very strong flavors, so they kinda compete with each other, so not such a great thing. Cocoa with peanut butter might be better.

The addition of nutella automatically solves the fudgy vs. cakey problem when usually making brownies (with fudgy coming out with a glorious victory.) I don't think I will ever make brownies without nutella again!

Made it this weekend, and darn it, it was sooo yummy!!!! My wife said it was really good too! I was wondering if there is anyway to bring out the nutella flavor even more? It seems hidden behind all the chocolate and cocao power. Add MORE nutella into the mix perhaps? (Yay!)